Damn funny story.

Way they tell it, sumbody must'r knocked Kirby down an' run oft with her.

Whoever did it, stole the boat in which Kirby an' the sheriff cum up the river, an' just naturally skipped out--the sheriff's nigger an' all.

It wus a slick job." "Of course, they chased them ?' "Best they cud, not knowin' which way they'd gone.

They reckoned the whol' bunch must'r got away tergether, so the sheriff he started fer Saint Louee, an' the others got onto a troop boat what happened ter cum 'long, and started north.